opie

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Middle English

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Noun

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opie

  1. opium
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1470-1474:
      For he had yive his gayler drinke so
      Of a clarree, maad of a certeyn wyn,
      With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn,
      That al that night, thogh that men wolde him shake,
      The gayler sleep, he mighte nat awake;
      [...]
      For he had so given his jailer drink
      Of a spiced and sweetened drink made of a certain wine,
      With narcotics and pure opium of Thebes,
      That all that night, though men would shake him,
      The jailer slept; he could not awake; [...]